<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=09sUdn_0wCFKcOu00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=09sUdn_0wCFKcOu00" width="1960" height="1275" ></figure>The esteemed indie-rock/alt-country/folk/pop artist unfurled a 14-song set on Thursday that included a brand new song from a forthcoming album. The review and photos at Local Spins.<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1UXl4R_0wCFKcOu00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1UXl4R_0wCFKcOu00" width="622" height="415" ><figcaption>‘This Tornado Loves You’ and Much More: Neko Case on stage Thursday. (Photo/Jamie Geysbeek)</figcaption></figure>SCROLL DOWN FOR PHOTOS, SET LISTNeko Case — who’s probably never not the coolest person in any room — is the type of artist to elevate everything she touches (see her extensive solo efforts, plus her work with The New Pornographers and case/lang/veirs for evidence of this).Case’s Thursday evening Grand Rapids tour stop, at a mostly occupied GLC Live at 20 Monroe, showcased the cherished indie singer-songwriter-guitarist in all her expected glory.No-frills staging and minimalist light design — plus a strictly-enforced no phone/recording policy — stripped away superfluous technology and put the focus squarely on the music, Case and that voice of hers.Offering up a 70-plus-minute set of tracks spanning her catalog (with “I Wish I Was the Moon” and “Oracle of the Maritimes” among the highlights), Case — clad in seasonally appropriate skeleton leggings — also shared several new songs from a teased forthcoming album, including a track celebrating the unfairly vilified spider, at least, in her estimation.Case wrapped it all up with an encore that featured two songs from her much-praised 2006 album, “Fox Confessor Brings the Flood” — “Star Witness” and “Hold Hold, Hold On.”Show opener Lucy Wainwright Roche — of the Wainwright and Roche musical lineages — charmed the audience with lovely/melancholy songs and an amiable brand of self deprecation that landed well with a respectful if mellow crowd.The concert’s strict no-phone policy, by the way, created a rather refreshing, throwback milieu.PHOTO GALLERY: Neko Case, Lucy Wainwright Roche at GLC Live at 20 MonroePhotos by Jamie Geysbeek<img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2YJSIv_0wCFKcOu00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2YJSIv_0wCFKcOu00" width="960" height="640" >SET LIST: Neko Case at GLC Live at 20 MonroeSetlist.fm<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0FN4XY_0wCFKcOu00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0FN4XY_0wCFKcOu00" width="500" height="492" ></figure></div></body>

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Neko Case delivers musical glory in no-frills fashion during Grand Rapids tour stop

The esteemed indie-rock/alt-country/folk/pop artist unfurled a 14-song set on Thursday that included a brand new song from a forthcoming album. The review and photos at Local Spins. SCROLL DOWN FOR PHOTOS, SET LIST. Neko Case — who’s probably never not the coolest person in any room — is the type...